Carnegie Hall February 2014 Calendar

Freely crossing the boundaries between classical, jazz, rock, world, and
experimental music, New York's amplified ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars
(pictured at right), co-founded by 2013–2014 Richard and Barbara Debs
Composer’s Chair David
Lang, present a Carnegie Hall Family Concert. Pre-concert
activities take place one hour before each performance and are free to all
ticket holders.

Eleftheria Arvanitaki,
one of today’s most talented Greek singers, brings her unique gift for both rebetiko, a genre of
folk music popular with refugees from Asia Minor in the early 20th century,
and contemporary Greek music to Carnegie Hall.

Early-music specialist Harry
Bicket (pictured at right) returns to Carnegie Hall leading The English Concert
for the next installment in their Handel project—the rarely heard oratorio Theodora featuring
soprano Dorothea
Röschmann in the title role, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly as
Irene, countertenor David
Daniels as Didymus, tenor Andrew Kennedy as Septimius,
bass-baritone Neal
Davies as Valens, and The
Choir of Trinity Wall Street, under the direction of Julian Wachner. A
pre-concert talk starts at 1:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
with Benjamin Sosland
from The Juilliard School.

Inspired by classic pop, rock, and soul, the acoustic quartet Lake Street Dive
performs both original songs and unique arrangements of classic hits with its
groove-driven strain of indie-pop. Presented in partnership with WFUV.

Violinist and director Fabio
Biondi leads Europa
Galante in an all-Vivaldi program entitled A Windy Season of Vivaldi
that features wind concertos and selections from Vivaldi’s beloved The Four Seasons.

Conductor Bernard
Haitink (pictured at right) leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra
in a two-night series of concerts. On Tuesday,
February 11 at 8:00 p.m., the orchestra is joined by pianist Murray Perahia for
Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54. Also on the program is Brahms’s
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op.98, and Steven Stucky’s (after Henry Purcell) Funeral Music for Queen Mary.
The following evening, Wednesday,
February 12 at 8:00 p.m., the orchestra and Mr. Haitink offer an
all-Ravel program that includes Alborada
del gracioso, Shéhérazade,
and the complete Daphnis
et Chloé featuring mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Principal Conductor Yuri
Temirkanov (pictured at right) leads the St. Petersburg
Philharmonic Orchestra in a two concerts. On Thursday,
February 13 at 8:00 p.m., pianist Denis
Kozhukhin is featured in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1
in B-flat Minor, Op. 23. Also on the program are excerpts from
Rimsky-Korsakov’s The
Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and Giya Kancheli’s ...al Niente. On Saturday,
February 15 at 8:00 p.m., the orchestra plays Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto
No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63, featuring violinist Julia Fischer on a program that also
includes Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27.

Five-time Grammy Award-nominated singer, pianist, and renowned interpreter of
the Great American Songbook Michael
Feinstein performs a special concert in Stern Auditorium /
Perelman Stage to be joined by Tony Award-nominee Laura Osnes and
other guests to be announced. (Christine Ebersole, originally announced as
part of this program, will no longer appear.)

Music Director George
Manahan conducts the American
Composers Orchestra, The
Crossing chamber choir, and pianists Stephen Gosling and Margaret Kampmeier
in a program entitled Orchestra
Underground: Lines on a Point. Music to be performed includes the
New York premieres of David Lang’s statement
to the court and Ted Hearne’s Ripple,
plus the world premieres of Lisa Coons’s Shadow
Studies and Amy Beth Kirsten’s strange
pilgrims (featuring video by Mark DeChiazza). Also on the program is
Steve Reich’s Eight Lines.

Violinist Fabio Biondi
(pictured at right) returns to Carnegie Hall following his
February 11 concert leading Europa Galante, this time collaborating with
harpsichordist Kenneth
Weiss on a program of Baroque music to include Locatelli’s
Sonata in D Minor, Op. 6, No. 12 and four works by J.S. Bach: Violin Sonata
in G Major, Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor,
and Italian Concerto.

Percussionist Glenn
Kotche (Wilco) collaborates with composer/performer Missy Mazzoli and
her group Victoire,
as well as sopranos Mellissa
Hughes and Martha
Cluver and mezzo-soprano Virginia Wamken, on a program featuring
the world premieres of new works by Kotche and Mazzoli, both commissioned by
Carnegie Hall. Also on the program is the New York premiere of John Luther
Adams’s Ilimaq
for Solo Percussion.

As part of his three-concert series focusing on the music of Brahms, pianist Emanuel Ax
collaborates with cellist Yo-Yo
Ma on a recital of works by the composer, including Cello
Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38, and Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99.
The program also features the New York premiere of a new work by composer
Anders Hillborg that is inspired by Brahms and co-commissioned by Carnegie
Hall. This program by Mr. Ax and Mr. Ma is The
Annual Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, in remembrance of the
longtime president of Carnegie Hall.

This February and March, Carnegie Hall presents Vienna: City of Dreams, a three-week
citywide festival celebrating the artistic legacy of Vienna, with
performances and events at Carnegie Hall and partner venues throughout New
York City.

February Vienna: City of
Dreams events at Carnegie Hall include:

The Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra are led by conductor Franz Welser-Möst in
the first two of seven festival performances by the orchestra in Stern
Auditorium / Perelman Stage. On Tuesday,
February 25 at 8:00 p.m., they are joined by soprano Ricarda Merbeth,
mezzo-soprano Zoryana
Kushpler, tenor Peter Seiffert, bass Günther Groissböck,
and the New York
Choral Artists for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Also on the
program is Schoenberg’s Friede
auf Erden. The following evening, Wednesday,
February 26 at 8:00 p.m., Maestro Welser-Möst leads the orchestra in
Mozart’s Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200; Johannes Maria Staud’s On Comparative Meteorology;
and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6 in A Major.

Ensemble
ACJW
plays Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, K. 452,
Schoenberg’s Verklärte
Nacht, and the New York premiere of a new work by contemporary
Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas on Friday,
February 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall.

Daniele
Gatti
(pictured at right) conducts the Vienna
State Opera and Chorus in a concert performance of Berg’s Wozzeck on Friday,
February 28 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. The opera
features Matthias
Goerne in the title role, Evelyn Herlitzius as Marie, Monika Bohinec as
Margret, Herbert
Lippert as the Drum Major, Norbert Ernst as Andres, Wolfgang Bankl as
Doctor, Herwig
Pecoraro as the Captain, Andreas Hörl and Clemens Unterreiner
as the First and Second Apprentices, Peter
Jelosits as the Madman, and Franz Gruber as the Soldier. A
pre-concert talk begins at 7:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage with
Provost and Dean of The Juilliard School, Ara Guzelimian.